[11] Memo, Col Kangleon for K-50-OCTOPUS (probably for MacArthur), 23 May 43, Guerrilla Papers. [↑]
[12] The estimates on the number of deaths vary considerably. In a letter to President Manuel Quezon by Senator Carlos Garcia, dated 16 October 1943, the deaths are mentioned as “several”; a manuscript by Mrs. Charlotte Martin, who was on Leyte, says “many lives were lost”; and 1st Lt. Jack Hawkins, USMC, a guerrilla, stated in December 1943 that “over three hundred casualties were suffered by the contesting sides.” Guerrilla Papers. [↑]
[13] GHQ FEC, MI Sec, GS, Messages in the Guerrilla Resistance Movement in the Philippines, Kangleon 201 File, DRB AGO. [↑]
[14] Office of Strategic Services, Research and Analysis Br, Rpt, Guerrilla Resistance in the Philippines, 21 Jul 44, Guerrilla Papers. [↑]
[15] ATIS, GHQ SWPA, Current Translations, 148, 6 Feb 45. [↑]
[16] ATIS, SWPA, Enemy Publications 359, Guerrilla Activities in the Philippines, 2 parts, 28 Apr 45, passim, DRB AGO. Any resemblance between the Japanese figures and those in Kangleon’s reports is purely coincidental. [↑]
[17] MI Sec, GHQ SWPA, G-2 Info Bull, The Resistance Movement on Leyte Island, 7 Oct 44, Doc Files Sec, G-2, Dept of Army. [↑]
[18] Intelligence Activities in the Philippines, p. 5. [↑]
[19] Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton considered Villamor “the most daring of the Filipino pilots.” Lewis H. Brereton, The Brereton Diaries (New York, 1946), p. 58. [↑]